Today is Assata Shakur‘s birthday, a political fugitive who escaped to Cuba in 1979 after being convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper. In honor of her birthday, check out her most powerful words.

1. Assata Shakur

Today is Assata Shakur’s birthday, a political fugitive who escaped to Cuba in 1979 after being convicted of killing a state trooper. In honor of her birthday, check out her most powerful words.

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“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history and your true heroes because they know that knowledge will help set you free.”~ Assata Shakur pic.twitter.com/wvT8ZqNIgr

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Do you agree with Assata Shakur?

"A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man. If he's not about liberation, if he's not about struggle, if he ain't about building a strong Black family, if he ain't about building a strong Black nation, then he ain't about nothing."

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"This planet needs a people’s r/evolution. a humanist r/evolution....we need a r/evolution of the mind. we need a r/evolution of the heart. we need a r/evolution of the spirit. The power of the people is stronger than any weapon." ~Assata Shakur

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-Assata Shakur'"People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave."